Many thanks to member Orlaith Payne, University of Strathclyde for sending us this amazing ‘cheat sheet’ of professional learning resources and guides. We know CLPL can be hard in Religious Education which is why we offer bespoke CLPL
This session aims to give share some experiences about how to successfully introduce SQA certificate Philosophy classes secondary schools. This will include suggestions on how to give pupils the best chance of attaining and addressing some worries that schools (or teachers) might have, such as whether philosophy will cannibalise RMPS and whether there’s a pathway from Higher Philosophy to Advanced Higher RMPS.
Two years before the release of ‘Adolescence’, and around the time we started hearing about someone called Andrew Tait, our department planned a series of BGE lessons with the aim of helping our pupils to become better thinkers. We wanted our pupils to see that, in an increasingly polarised world, settling for easy answers is often a mistake. Two years later, this unit is receiving top feedback from S4 pupils and even increasing our SQA course uptake. This session will look at the process of planning the unit, its content, and will share details of how to access the lessons and documentary clips used.
You can find the latest course reports at the below links. We recommend these as a great starting point for getting support with SQA delivery, marking and moderating. Course Reports National 4 – https://www.sqa.org.uk/…/nq-rmps-qvsr-round-1%20round… National 5 – https://www.sqa.org.uk/…/2024-n5-course-report-rmps.pdf Higher – https://www.sqa.org.uk/…/2024-h-course-report-rmps.pdf (Some great advice for Non religious responses. Lots of Read more
There are a number of places that you can look to get support with teaching RME/RMPS. We have listed ones we are aware of that are still active below, but please get in touch (hello@starme.co.uk) if we have missed any off the list. RME National Team This is a Team Read more
We hope you’re all enjoying a well-deserved break after a busy start to the school year! We’re excited to kick off the new term with some valuable opportunities for RME educators across Scotland. Regional Teach Meets We’re pleased to announce a new program of Regional Teach Meets designed to foster Read more
Please see below a letter we have sent on behalf of our members to the SQA’s Chief Executive today in response to the loss of two of the Subject Implementation Managers and the fact there will be no Understanding Standards Events next year. We will keep our members updated with Read more
The 2023 RMPS Course reports have been published by the SQA; see below links – RMPS N5 – https://sqa.org.uk/sqa/files_ccc/2023-n5-course-report-rmps.pdf… Higher – https://sqa.org.uk/sqa/files_ccc/2023-h-course-report-rmps.pdf… Advanced Higher – https://sqa.org.uk/sqa/files_ccc/2023-ah-course-report-rmps.pdf Philosophy N5 – 2023 National 5 Philosophy Course Report Higher – 2023 Higher Philosophy Course Report These reports have lots of helpful advice for practitioners and Read more
Report from the Scottish Teachers Association of RME (STARME) AGM – 24th August 2023 Chaired by Stuart McKinlay Our first Annual General Meeting since our formation in 2022. This first year has been a year of making connections and building our initial presence. We have met with and formed working Read more
Welcome to our latest edition of our Newsletter! Note from Chair As we reach the end of term, no doubt everyone is also feeling like we have had the busiest year this year and for STARME it is no different. In our first year we have been setting out the Read more